Rob_Impreza99

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I`m after a new mobile phone, preferably one that has internet access and can send emails and one that plays video files and maybe is an Ipod player as well.

Ive seen the blackberry storm which looks good, some opinions on that phone would be good or any other similar mobile phones with the above spec or similar. Thanks

Timwinner

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Many will disagree but for me the iPhone 3G is still the benchmark.

SwissTony

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totally agree. The iphone fits the bill exactly considering the requirements

Ant

Agree with the 2 above. You won't get better

Ant

You Answered your own qustion

Rob_Impreza99

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The iPhone 3G seems to be very popular, its obviously a lot more expensive than the blackberry storm, what advantages does the iPhone 3G have over the Blackberry Storm and is the greater expense justified ?

Does it have more features etc and is the GPS any good ?

Timwinner

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The App function in the iPhone is amazing, It pretty much can be made to do anything. And I mean anything from decibel reader to baseball score card to video play back.

It has a good size memory, The extra money is well spent IMO, you wont be disappointed.

Butty

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Specifying it to be an Ipod player rather limits the choice

SwissTony

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he could always go for a zune

ScoobyDoo555

Also the Storm DOES NOT have wifi..... got 3g access (woo hoo )

Iphone is good - but it does have its faults. All well documented on the net - Google

I nearly had a Storm, and I'm SOOOO glad I didn't. Played with it in the shop and it was cr@p.

Also depends on your network. Iphone includes internet and email etc on the O2 network. For circa £35/month.

Check out the Berrys, HTC Touch HD(?), and Voda have got it kept hush hush, but they've apparently got the next "market-leader" being released in the Summer I'm holding on to see exactly what comes out in the next few months.

Nokia N97
S/Ericsson X range (X1 is apparently rubbish - bloke in the shop wouldn't sell me one as he said it was THAT cr@p!! )

Other options - PDA/phone....

Dan

stevebt

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The iphone is a cracking gadget but a shoite phone, I personally would look for something better. I had an iphone and constantly struggled for a signal at work but when I brought my HTC in it had full signal. The iphone is everything I would like for a phone apart from the phone part

ScoobyDoo555

Which is why I've got my N95, and an Ipod Touch

Dan

stiscooby

HTC HD

The Dogs B******s

Nearly got that phone today,but got the Nokia 5800 instead,better phone for me

pimmo2000

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Size and weight1

Height:4.5 inches (115.5 mm)Width:2.4 inches (62.1 mm)Depth:0.48 inch (12.3 mm)Weight:4.7 ounces (133 grams) Color

• 8GB model: Black
• 16GB model: Black or white

Capacity2

• 8GB or 16GB flash drive

Cellular and wireless

• UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

GPS

• Assisted GPS11

In the box

• iPhone 3G
• Stereo Headset with mic
• Dock Connector to USB Cable
• USB Power Adapter
• Documentation
• Cleaning/polishing cloth
• SIM eject tool

Environmental Status Report

iPhone 3G embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress. It is designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:

• PVC-free handset
• PVC-free headphones
• PVC-free USB cable
• Bromine-free printed circuit boards
• Mercury-free LCD display
• Majority of packaging made from post-consumer recycled fiberboard and biobased materials
• Power adapter outperforms strictest global energy efficiency standards

Display

• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
• 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Audio

• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
• User-configurable maximum volume limit

Headphones

• Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Impedance: 32 ohms

Video

• Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Camera and photos

• 2.0 megapixels
• Photo geotagging
• iPhone and third-party application integration

Language support

• Language support for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Ukrainian
• International keyboard and dictionary support for English (U.S.), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean (no dictionary), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Ukrainian

Mail attachment support

• Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)

Connectors and input/output

• 30-pin dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
• Built-in speaker
• Microphone
• SIM card tray

External buttons and controls

• Sleep/wake
• Ring/silent
• Volume up/down
• Home

Sensors

• Accelerometer
• Proximity sensor
• Ambient light sensor

Power and battery

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery3
• Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
• Talk time:4Up to 5 hours on 3GUp to 10 hours on 2G
• Standby time: Up to 300 hours5
• Internet use:Up to 5 hours on 3G6Up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi7
• Video playback: Up to 7 hours8
• Audio playback: Up to 24 hours9

Mac system requirements

• Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
• Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
• iTunes 7.7 or later

Windows system requirements

• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
• iTunes 7.7 or later

Environmental requirements

• Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
  (0° to 35° C)
• Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
  (-20° to 45° C)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
• Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

The Dogs B******s

To much information

stevebt

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Loads of imformation on what it does, just try and make lots of calls I got sick of people I was calling telling me they could barely hear me and my phone was crap! I hope all this gets sorter with the next version of iphone as if it does I would have one

SwissTony

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Mikee

When our baby boy was born we sent photos to our friends from our mobiles, anyone with an Iphone couldn't pic them up. No fix to this glitch yet I'm told.

Mark Mac

There is a free update due soon for all owners of the 2nd Gen Iphones.
This will give you mms, text forwarding and fixes most of the stupidness of the last op system.
IPhone is still the benchmark.

bigsinky

blackberry bold here. i'm sure the bb owners can convert you.

mart360

Sorry the Iphone is not the benchmark

Its locked to a propriety OS and carrier, has a camera that is shamefully

inadequate in today's market. needs / needed updates to do basic things

that most phones do out of the box.

How that can be seen as benchmark is beyond me...

"emperors new clothes" springs to mind!

Take away the app market, and it would be a very basic phone, and would

probably wouldn't have got beyond a Mk1 version.

have you noticed they have to edit adverts to make the app feature look

quick/ interesting.


Its a shame really, if they had done some forward research, they could have made the Mk2 a reall killer.

prehaps if the specsheet had read

5 mp camera with xenon flash
Full DivX capability
Full frame video recording at 30fps
Media streaming all formats!
Full bluetooth capability
MMS & picture / video messaging
Not network locked to one carrier

then possibly they would clean up

Mart

spireite

HTC - Products - HTC Touch HD - Specification

Iphone killer

Mark Mac

Mart,
As posted before the forth coming update, 3.0 will sort alot of issues.
Maybe you can't see woods for the apple trees.......

NotoriousREV

So what you're saying is that as an internet phone the iPhone is rubbsih because it's only got a 2MP camera and that if you take away some of the functionality it has it just becomes a basic phone? By that logic, the Canon EOS is ****e because it utterly fails to make phone calls and if you take away it's photography abilities it's just a plastic box.

Is the iPhone perfect? No, but the software update due out in June fixes a large bunch of the biggest problems. What makes the iPhone a winner is that it's far easier to browse the web on than any other phone on the market. In fact 90% of my web browsing is now done on my iPhone. Nothing by HTC, Nokia or Blackberry would give me that ability.

Diesel

I'm looking too - my Vodafone N95 has crackly earpiece and broken batt cover

I'm looking at Nokia E71 - great reviews & plays h.264 vids. Also the HTC HD has a great screen 480 X 800 and beats the E71's 320 x 240 pixels - great for showing off yer vids! Dont know enough about it yet really and sticking to Nokia means (hopefully) no need to buy all the other bits/mem cards for car/office etc.

Do you reckon the Nokia actually comes with the b software you need for GPS (unlike the con on my N95 which doesnt)?

Again although worded a bit cunningly, I dont think the HTC has GPS - site states "Get directions, view satellite maps and find your location using Google Maps".

Minefield

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ScoobyDoo555

V3 won't give it a good camera.....

I SOOO want to like the iphone (I'm a huge Mac user anyway), but there's still issues that won't be addressed by software updates. And I doubt that Apple will be releasing new hardware soon. + I'm happy with my current network provider (not O2).....

bugger

Dan

Markus

Mart,
OS 3.0 is coming and it will provide for copy and paste, MMS, and a host of other things. There was mention of some changes to Bluetooth, probably only to use stereo headphones though and not file copying, but I could be wrong.

There are screenshots that show the new OS supports a video feature, but no-one is sure if that will be supported on current phones, or wether a new phone is in the works. We should hopefully find out more in June.

jjones

run joiku on the n95 and then the only thing you need to do with the n95 is make calls

mart360

I see, so your saying that a 2mp camera, subject to some firmware updating, will become a 5mp camera, will record 30fps video, accept DivX coding, and stream this data to any application that accepts it over bluetooth?

I,m not disputing that the Iphone may be very good at surfing the net, as are many other phones, and some long before the iphone came on the scene!, ( i was surfing the net, and posting on SN, on one of my early mobiles back in 2003, long before data tarrif's and the Iphone had been heard of )

What i,m saying and sticking by, is that if you remove the "apps" side of the iphone, it becomes no better in functionality than the majority of "smartphones" that are on the market.

Mart